RegBin plug-in

Author: Iceman_K (talk, contrib)

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RegBin.zip (7 KB)

Description

Writes an arbitrarily large binary value (which can be set at runtime) to the Windows Registry.

This overcomes two shortcomings of the standard WriteRegBin command:

• Binary values have to specified at compile-time.
• Maximum size of the value is 511 bytes.

See Example.nsi for a usage example.

Usage

1. Call writeRegBin to write the data in one step. Max value size is 511 bytes.

-or-

1. Call init to initialize the registry information and the buffer.
2. Call append to add to the buffer.
3. Optional - repeat steps 3 to append as many times as desired.
4. Call write to write the data to the registry.

Notes

• init and append functions MUST be called with /NOUNLOAD so that the buffer does not get lost.
• This plugin requires NSIS 2.0b3 and above.
• All functions return "success" and "error" on success and error, respectively (duh!).

Available Functions

1. init root_key subkey valuename valuedata
   • root_key must be one of:
     • HKCR or HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT
     • HKLM or HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
     • HKCU or HKEY_CURRENT_USER
     • HKU or HKEY_USERS
     • HKCC or HKEY_CURRENT_CONFIG
     • HKDD or HKEY_DYN_DATA
     • HKPD or HKEY_PERFORMANCE_DATA
   • valuedata is in hexadecimal (e.g. DEADBEEF01223211151).
2. append valuedata
   • See init for valuedata description.
3. write valuedata
   • valuedata is in hexadecimal (e.g. DEADBEEF01223211151).
4. writeRegBin root_key subkey valuename valuedata
   • See init for parameters description.

Credits

Coded by Sunil Kamath, aka iceman_k/icemank